Carrie Jones
1) In the woods
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Chrystal's plans for the summer are upended when she joins her journalist father in Oklahoma to investigate a grisly attack, discovering that the only witness is a surprisingly good-looking farm boy named Logan.
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IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Sarah Emma Edmonds started pretending at a very early age. Her father only wanted sons, so Sarah pretended to be one. Unlike most kids, though, Sarah never really stopped pretending. In 1861, during the U.S. Civil War, Sarah pretended her way into the Union Army, becoming a male nurse named Frank Thompson. Being a nurse didn't quite satisfy "Frank," though. She wanted to keep her fellow soldiers from getting hurt. So when the Union Army needed a spy,...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Belle, a high school junior, expects to marry her long-term boyfriend one day until he tells her and their entire small Maine town that he is gay, and both face prejudice and violence even as they enter new relationships and try to remain friends.
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IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
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As Belle tries to cope with the ups and downs of her final year of high school, she begins to question what it really means to grow up, why her friends insist on labeling everyone, and how she feels about the label she has been given.
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Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Moe Berg is not a typical baseball player. He's Jewish-very unusual for the major leagues in the 1930s-has a law degree, speaks several languages, and loves traveling the world. He also happens to be a spy for the U.S. government. When World War II begins, Moe trades his baseball career for a life of danger and secrecy. Using his unusual...
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Sometimes the best things happen in the most unexpected places... Lilian, a curvy Brazilian brunette, is about to get her Master's degree in the States when a job position opens in a large local company. She decides it's worth trying and sends them her resumé. When they call her for an interview, Lil can barely believe her luck! But the best is yet to come, and the surprises are just starting... Alec Wolfe is the Chief Director of Wolfe Enterprises,...
7) Girl, Hero
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FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEED AND CAPTIVATE After landing a lead role in the high school musical, freshman Liliana Faltin is hoping for some stability and happiness in her life. But her mom's live-in boyfriend has a thing for booze, touching, and telling dark family secrets. And the other people in her world aren't exactly role-model material, either. Her unreliable father cries a lot, wears blue tights, and drives a little beige...
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Las mejores cosas a veces surgen en los lugares más inesperados. . . Lilian, una brasileña morena y curvilinea, hace su maestría en los Estados Unidos. Cuando surge una vacante de empleo importante en una gran empresa local, decide que no cuesta nada probar, y manda su currículo. Después que combina la entrevista, ¡apenas puede creer en su suerte! Pero todavía no vió nada, y las sorpresas solo están comenzando. . . Alec Wolfe es el director...
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New York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones introduces sassy alien-hunting cheerleader Mana in Flying, the launch of a sparkling new YA Science Fiction series.
People have always treated seventeen-year-old Mana as someone in need of protection. She's used to being coddled, being an only child, but it's hard to imagine anything could ever happen in her small-town, normal life. As her mother's babying gets more stifling than ever, she's looking...
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Need series volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 10
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High school junior Zara and her friends continue to try to contain the pixies that threaten their small Maine town, but when a Valkyrie takes Zara's boyfriend, Nick, to Valhalla, the only way to save him is to trust a pixie king, Astley.
11) Need
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Need series volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 10
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Depressed after the death of her stepfather, high school junior Zara goes to live with her grandmother in a small Maine town, where new friends tell Zara the strange man she keeps seeing may be a pixie king, and that only "were" creatures can stop him from taking souls.
12) Endure
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Need series volume 4
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[2012]
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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When evil pixies cause mass destruction and chaos in Bedford, Maine, sixteen-year-old Zara prepares for war, aligning her team of pixies with the humans she loves so much, a task made more difficult by her growing feelings for pixie king Astley.
13) After obsession
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IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
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When Alan, a half-Navajo in touch with the spiritual mysticism of his ancestors, meets Aimee, a gifted psychic in his new high school, they realize they've had precognitive dreams of each other and that they must confront an evil spirit that has been responsible for mysterious deaths in the river in their small Maine town for hundreds of years and which is now haunting Alan's cousin Courtney.
14) Entice
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Need series volume 3
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[2010]
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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When evil pixies invade Bedford, capturing more teens every day, sixteen-year-old Zara's quest to bring Nick back from Valhalla becomes more urgent, but she fears he will not return with her since she has been pixie kissed and become Astley's queen.
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Need volume 3
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2010
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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When evil pixies invade Bedford, capturing more teens every day, sixteen-year-old Zara's quest to bring Nick back from Valhalla becomes more urgent, but she fears he will not return with her since she has been pixie kissed and become Astley's queen.
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This is a time when organizations must develop far deeper relationships with customers. But they don't know how this is done profitably and at scale. This book will help usher confused organizations into a new future where community and profit mutually support one another. Carrie Melissa Jones and Charles H. Vogl highlight companies succeeding (Airbnb, Reddit, Apple, Toyota Motor Company, etc.) and those who are failing (left anonymous). The authors...
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Today's top authors for teens and young people come together to share their stories about bullying-as bystanders, as victims, and as the bullies themselves-in this moving and deeply personal collection. Lauren Oliver, R. L. Stine, Ellen Hopkins, Carolyn Mackler, Kiersten White, Mo Willems, Jon Scieszka, Lauren Kate, and many more contributed 70 heartfelt and empathetic stories from each corner of the schoolyard. In addition, Dear Bully includes resources...